STAKE OF £2500

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1937, Page 11

STAKE OF £2500

N.Z. TROTTING CUP

LAP PRIZES INCLUDED

<By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The New Zealand Trotting Cup to be decided at Addington in Novem? ber will be for horses that are assessed at 4min 2Ssec or faster for two miles. The stake is £2500, which is £500 more than for last year's race and an increase of £1000, on the 1935 event. The committee of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club has incorporated a condition in the programme which gives it the right to decline the final acceptance of any horse and to refund any payments made. .This condition has been adopted for the purpose of. excluding horses the committee may consider are past their, best or otherwise unsuitable to compete for the big prize. ! Lap prizes have also been included ' in the stake and a time restriction has : been placed on the first four furlongs I and one mile and a quarter. A prize i of £100 will be given to the horse \ first past the winning post the first time ' round, provided that that part of the contest, which is four furlongs, is covered in lmin 6sec, or faster. Another prize of £150 will be given for the first horse past the winning post the second time round, which distance is a mile and a quarter and must be traversed in '2min 45sec or faster. Should the track be slow, the sectional times will be revised.' , The object of lap prizes is to ensure the race-being run in fast time and to provide a thorough test of speed and stamina.